Balto
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balto-172-4436241
title:
Balto
text:
Balto was an Alaskan husky and sled dog belonging to musher and breeder Leonhard Seppala. He achieved fame when he led a team of sled dogs driven by Gunnar Kaasen on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome, in which diphtheria antitoxin was transported from Anchorage, Alaska, to Nenana, Alaska, by train and then to Nome by dog sled to combat an outbreak of the disease. Balto's celebrity status, and that of Kaasen's, resulted in a two-reel motion picture, a statue in Central Park, and a natio
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Sled dog
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balto
date created:
2004-05-23T01:17:07Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T18:07:48Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Balto_1925_%28cropped%29.jpg","width":225,"height":350}
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13
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